God forbid that India should ever take to industrialism after the manner of the west... keeping the world in chains. If our nation took to similar economic exploitation, it would strip the world bare like locusts.
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Don't listen to friends when the Friend inside you says 'Do this.'
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If one does not practice nonviolence in one's own personal relations with others and hopes to use it in bigger affairs, one is vastly mistaken.
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What we are doing to the forests of the world is but a mirror reflection of what we are doing to ourselves and to one another.
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H. G. Wells was not the only one to mention Churchill and Hitler in the same breath 'Churchill and Hitler are striving to change the nature of their respective countrymen by forcing and hammering violent methods on them. Man may be suppressed in this manner but he cannot be changed. Ahimsa non-violence in the Hindu tradition, on the other hand, can change human nature and sooner than men like Churchill and Hitler.'
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Be the change you want to see in the world.
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